Misophonia - what are your triggers?

Those fireworks that make a sizzling noise.

People walking/dragging their feet on sandy/gritty floors.

Phones on loudspeaker without headphones

This. It should be illegal, and it should be permissible to grab their fucking phones, hurl them to the ground and stamp on them (the phones, not the people; I'm grumpy and irritable, but not violent).

I'd also like there to be a legal maximum for in-car sound systems. Hearing booming bass from passing cars gives me the rage, and from parked cars even more so. There's a lad along my road who's recently passed his test and likes to sit in his car for ages with loud music playing. It's so loud I can hear it over the tv or radio, and that's with the (double glazed) windows shut. It's going to be intolerable with the windows open when the weather gets warmer.

I also get pretty pissed off with my neighbour running her washing machine at 5am. Her water tanks are on the other side of the party wall, so about 3' from my head and it's like trying to sleep under Niagara Falls.

I wish it was affordable (and practical) to live in the middle of a 5 acre plot with no near neighbours.

All food and food wrapper noises – it doesn’t have to be obnoxious ones.

I used to sit opposite a lady at work. She was a very delicate person, and certainly not a sloppy eater. She had impeccable manners, but I could still hear a very faint sound when she was chewing (with her mouth shut) and I had to walk away every time. It made me absolutely detest an otherwise lovely person.

The way my father in law scrapes the bottom of his bowel like he’s digging for fucking Australia.

Some other non-food related;

People clearing their throat constantly.
Clicky noises – my DH has a really loud mouse for his laptop and the clicking enrages me
Two people talking at once – often DS and DH. I literally can not cope with the sound and can’t focus in on either one
The heavy breathing/light snoring people do when they’re dropping off to sleep
The sound of saliva in someone’s mouth when they talk (that Dr who is often on Radio 2 is terrible for it)
Vocal Fry
Unexpected loud noises - e.g when DH stamps on a can before he puts it in the recycling tub, or when a dog starts barking. Loud music on the other hand would be fine.

I could probably add to this list endlessly.

What I’d be interested to know if people who have misophonia all have other sensory related phobias. I also have trypophobia, which other people seem to think is hilarious and it absolutely is not. I wonder if they kind of go hand in hand?

Pretty much everything that has already been mentioned. Top ones are: Gum chewing/smacking lips, slow crunching, and tuneless humming or out of pitch singing.

Edited to add another one: Scraping cutlery especially spoons against the side of plates for example scraping up the last bit of yoghurt. And just continuing to scrape even though there is clearly nothing left. Someone did this in the tea room the other day.

When people stuff loads of food into their mouth at once and you can hear it all sloshing in around in their mouths which seems to take FOREVER!!Can you tell this gives me the absolute rage?

Oh clacky is the perfect word for it. It absolutely makes me want to vomit.

Oh ASMR that is ridiculous just why ? It isn't soothing or relaxing it is stupid and irritating, it sets me on edge.

Eating, especially my husband clinking a spoon on his teeth when eating and his jaw clicking- we have to have the radio on at mealtimes as I can’t cope

sniffing, coughing and throat clearing

tapping and banging

any sort of buzzing or alarm

people sitting outside my house with the engine running or the radio loud

people who talk too loud or have their music blaring that I can still hear it through their headphones

when bottle flipping was a trend I got the rage!

just basically everything. I have got Loop earplugs recently but they don’t help much

I hate it. My brother has it and also my daughter

Other people’s music. At beaches. Neighbours. From a passing car. Makes me murderous.

People eating.

And people scraping the last dregs out of their yoghurt pot like some fucking crack head.

Slurping, and the tinkle of ice or people swirling ice, the "tinny" noise you sometimes get from loud speakers on phones, my dog licking can sometimes send me over the edge.

Slurping
Clearing throat
Yawning loudly (no need)
Loud booming voices ... sush you aren't a bingo caller
Rustling plastic bags
Loud cars / scooters

Lots of the above.
And also people tapping their nails on the table or any hard surfaces.
Tap tap tap.
Gives me the rage and humming.

Small Children eating bananas
And making that grunting noise when they've got a bit of a cold whilst they're eating....
My husband, tasting something new and smacking his lips like he's some professional food taster on Masterchef...

My DH makes a “pop” sound with his lips after a sip of wine…agh!
His watch clanking against his keyboard
My son in laws leg jiggling (not a sound I know but I have to move out of sight of it)
And …Im really sorry about this one…Scouse accents. And I have a lovely friend from Liverpool!

Sniffing. Noisy eaters. Fingernail flicking. Dogs yapping (deep barking is ok). Heavy breathing.

Loud sneezes, sniffling constantly. Funnily enough the lip smacking food eating ones don’t really bother me.

People crinkling packets for snacks, rattling plastic bags, the sound of suitcases with wheels on an outside pavement, the sound of stilleto heels, random tapping, metal being cut, high pitched screaming 😱

Ha. Yes. Thats what people who don't actually have it don't understand. Its not just not liking it, or being annoyed, or irritated, its the strength of the rage and hatred that overwhelmes you. I feel so angry I feel like I cant breathe and it takes everything in me not to beat them to death. I want them to die. That's how huge the rage is

It is terrifying. And you know it is ridiculous but it is not within your control. Its kind of like a steroid backed rage filled panic attack.

I had cut to conquer a very severe needle phobia and it worked. Cbt did not work a bit with this.

@stapletonsguitarMine too - what the actual heck? I often leave the room if he makes a cup of tea! I’ve given up trying to ask him not to slurp and gulp. 🤦‍♀️ 😡
He prob got the habit from FIL who had no table manners.

All of it!!
Chewing/lip smacking noises/slurping/crinkling packets in cinema (makes me so on edge I can’t concentrate on the film), sneezing (dh does such loud ones), excessive sniffing.

Throat clearing
sniffing
spoons on bowls of soup
chewing gum smacking noise
eating with mouth own- known in our house as chomping

Just off the top of my head and in no particular order-

Noisy eaters - every time that Uber Eats ad is on where he’s shoving chicken in his gob in the park is my current nightmare
Noisy drinkers
Noisy breathing (illness just about excepted)
Constant sniffing and throat clearing
Finger lickers
Cutlery scrapers
TV kissing
Long fake nails tapping on touch screens
Certain accents

Influencers tapping everything with their nails . The sound drives me mad .

People typing on noisy keyboards- this is worse for me in the singular- eg one on a train rather than several in the office. Loud chewing. Knuckle cracking. People listening without headphones to any media in public places (this seems to mix with my rage at the rudeness to be particularly unbearable). Ticking clocks when its otherwise quiet. I'm also really sensitive to floral or strong scents, (particularly perfumes and particularly when freshly sprayed) and find them even more intolerable than noise sometimes.